Source: CCTV.com
05-07-2008 09:14
Special Report: 2008 Beijing Olympic GamesThe annual Canadian Tulip Festival again blossoms across the capital city of Ottawa. The city has become a huge garden where the national flower of the Netherlands' flourishes in abundance. The hard winter is over. People are enjoying the fragrance of the spring, and a special appreciation sent by the people of the Tulip kingdom.
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| The annual Canadian Tulip Festival again blossoms across the capital city of Ottawa. (File photo) |
The festival is one of the most magnificent displays of tulips in the world today. Within two weeks, millions of tulips form a vast sea of blossoms, welcoming visitors from around the globe. And Ottawa is thus honored the "Tulip Capital" of North America.
During World War II, the Netherlands royal family fled to exile in Canada. Princess Margriet was born in an Ottawa hospital in 1943. Thousands of Canadian soldiers died in the campaign to liberate the Netherlands from Nazi occupation. After the war, tulip seeds were sent to Canada every year to commemorate the assistance given to the Netherlands. Half a century has passed and tulips have remained a symbol of friendship and multi-culturalism.
